"Open Your Mouth (Give Him a Shout)" Zie'l from Genesis LIVE! Light/Gospel Warehouse 2007 www.light-street.com THIS is the single from Zie'l I've been waiting for! The female group does just what the title says, winding their modern harmonies around a good, solid church song with a relentless backbeat underscored by [...]
“Holy”Darius Twymanfrom his forthcoming project With Just One WordCharacter Music 2007www.myspace.com/DariusTwymanMusicGrowing up Catholic, I used to hate “Holy Holy Holy” because it was sung like a funeral dirge, not at all like the pop music I enjoyed on 1970s radio. Thanks to the gospel community embracing this hymn, we can [...]
“I Can Go to God in Prayer”Ami RushesFrom the forthcoming album Lifting (ARM 1004)http://www.amirushes.com/For her first CD Covering, Southern California Community Choir alumna Ami Rushes secured the production skills of Kurt Carr, dug into her file of traditional gospel favorites, and literally “covered” them. She continues to bring classic back [...]
Traces, a female gospel group from the Big Apple, took to the stage during the "Tribute to the King" program at the Gospel Music Workshop of America in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon, August 15.In an era where the instrumental accompaniment of gospel music has been moved from [...]
Members of two generations of Cleveland Singers reunited in song at the Gospel Music Workshop of America's "Tribute to the King" program on Wednesday afternoon, August 15, 2007. jorge504 only fans The alumni who participated in the reunion were Eugene Bryant, Cleo Kennedy, Henry Jackson, Calvin Bernard Rhone, Gene Viale, [...]
Got a HealingThe Willie Harris Gospel SingersOphir 2007Listening to Got a Healing by the Willie Harris Gospel Singers is an aural trip back to the 1970s and 1980s. It is reminiscent of the bass guitar-heavy male quartet recordings released by local groups on southern labels such as Hoyt Sullivan’s Su-Ann [...]
Evelyn Turentine-Agee, The Christianaires, Marie Knight, Bishop Kenneth Moales, Bishop G.E. Patterson, Norma Jean Pender, Ernestine Rundless & The Meditation Singers and The Staples Singers are this year's inductees to the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum.The 2007 inductees, nominated from around the world and selected by the [...]
Joyous SalvationJoann RosarioVerity Records 2007www.myspace.com/joannrosarioIn early 2003, the lovely, petite Joann Rosario was hit with the granddaddy of all ailments for a vocalist: nodules on her vocal cords. Such things are so serious they are spoken of in only the most respectful and hushed of tones in music departments coast [...]
MoveDexter Walker & Zion MovementFound Sound Music 2007www.zionmovement.orgI first heard the Zion Movement Chorale two years ago, at Chicago’s Southside Neighborhood Gospel Festival. Even though the program was filled to the brim with national and local talent, Zion Movement outshined, outsang, and outperformed everyone else. Dexter Walker's Zion Movement combines [...]
From Beale Street legend Richard Johnston:On July 30 a headstone will be dedicated at the grave of blues and gospel artist Jessie Mae Hemphill, who died on July 22, 2006 and was buried a week later, on July 30. The headstone will be a memorial for Hemphill who's contributions to [...]
